braincake666
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"Normal people scare me" because I was recognized from an early age by my peers as a "freak" and an "outcast" and it's socially normal to treat people who are perceived as freaks and outcasts with condescension and violence.
"Freak" and "outcast" became part of my identity because they were forced on me-- so I wear them with pride.
"Normal people scare me" because its socially normal to be abusive and violent toward people who are perceived as abnormal.
"Normal people scare me" isn't just an edgy slogan-- its an implicit acknowledgement of systemic violence and my place on the social food chain.
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Batman Beyond does not get the credit it deserves for how respectfully and realistically they portrayed a lot of the issues they touched on, especially for a show that came out in 2000.
Babel portrayed someone going deaf and resenting their reliance on hearing aids to fully perceive the world. Spellbound showed a high school counselor exploiting students by getting them hooked on drugs. The Winning Edge has a coach pushing his athletes into doing steroids because he only sees them as pawns for victory. In Disappearing Inque and Eggbaby the main antagonist was explicitly abusive toward their henchmen.
And don’t even get me started on THAT scene in Black Out that was a pretty obvious assault allegory. A depiction of an attractive woman restraining, kissing, and then physically forcing her body down the throat of a teenage boy, leaving him dry heaving and coughing up the liquid she left behind? Being shown as a horrific and disgusting and traumatic experience?! In THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND?!
#batman beyond#terry mcginnis#also Zeta was very easy to read as an allegory for any kind of societal Other#anyway you guys should watch Batman Beyond#it’s basically Batman but cyberpunk#see also Bloodsport where the villain(?) is a hunter who got mauled by a black jaguar and was paralyzed#then REPLACED HIS ENTIRE SPINE WITH CYBERNETICS#and was hunting Batman because he was so traumatized by the event that he saw Batman as the pseudo reincarnation of the Jaguar#and had a panic attack and went Fight Or Flight because of it#come to think of it a lot of the plot lines revolved around disability and mental illness
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